How Acquia distills tens of thousands of hours of client work into products and open source tools for Drupal. Drupal gets better when companies, organizations, and individuals build or fix something they need and then share it with the rest of us. Our community becomes better, stronger, and smarter when others take it upon themselves to make a positive difference contributing their knowledge, time, and energy to Drupal. Acquia is proud to play a part, alongside thousands of others, in making tomorrow's Drupal better than today's.
Cameron Tod is a Kiwi living in London, UK with a beautiful wife and 2-year-old daughter. Cameron never looked back when he 'landed on Drupal 5 as a do-it-all IT-guy with a strong interest in web development,' in 2007. He's been a Solutions Architect--a pre-sales technical consultant--at Acquia since 2013.
jam: How did your session come about?
Cameron: Will Eisner, Senior Director of Product at Acquia, and I had the chance to present a session in the Business Showcase track at DrupalCon Dublin. We decided to show how Acquia works to make life easier for all digital project stakeholders across its lifecycle and designed our session to demonstrate how we address a variety of those needs.
Alongside prospective Acquia customers, we wanted to show anyone new to Drupal projects how we work at Acquia to understand the key pressures and activities in a digital project and how we enable our customers--and those who might use our open source tools--to be successful with Drupal at every stage.
jam: Tell me about those open source tools, Cam!
Cameron: Acquia has open sourced two key products which aim to make digital team's life easier and enable them to get the best out of Drupal: Acquia Lightning, a curated best-of-D8 distribution and what we call 'BLT' (because that sounds more exciting than 'Build and Launch Tool'), a set of tools, resources, and conventions to help Drupal development teams optimise their code quality and velocity. Acquia has some more exciting tools launching in 2017, including Acquia Pipelines.
jam: What value do these tools deliver to developers?
Cameron:
jam: What value do these tools deliver to site owners and businesses?
Cameron:
jam: What value do these tools deliver to the Drupal community?
Cameron: Acquia has and continues to invest significant developer effort and resources into the Lightning and BLT open source projects. We are committed to maintaining these projects, making them better over time, and ensuring that the whole community benefits on the things we learn dealing with our biggest clients.
DrupalCon session description: Getting it done with Acquia: Pipelines, Lightning, BLT, Content Hub, and more
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